ONE Of the HUGE advantages of ATI Multi VPU might be its ability to let you use two different ATI based cards. As we said before, ATI Multi VPU don't use any card nterconnector although Nvidia does.
In Nvidia's case you cannot even use two 6600GT or 6800 GT cards from two companies since there may be incompatibilities. It is a problem even if you use different BIOSes on the cards. Two different cards simply won't work in this case.
ATI will let you use two different cards as its Multi VPU works in a different way. It tiles your screen like a chess board and each board can take care of different "chess fields". You will literally be able to take an R520 and plug it side by side with R423, X800 or R480, X850 board and make them render simultaneously. Faster boards could, for example, take on more tasks than slower board, rending more fields. Sounds good to me, but let's just see the drivers and performance of that Multi VPU marchitecture first. We heard a while ago that ATI has this marchitecture ready but it wants to wait with it and than surprise everyone. It will possibly materialise this marchitecture after the R520 "Fudo" launch.
Source: TheInquirer
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Which memory type will be used for R520 "Fudo" and G70?
SINCE we are getting closer and closer to the release of the R520 chip codenamed "Fudo", it is time to start wondering what kind of memory this chip might use. It's very easy to get the picture and you can just surf the web and actually see what kind of memory is available now.
What you can get at this moment is Samsung DDR 3, 1.4 ns memory, capable of working at an amazing 1400MHz. At this time the fastest memory clock used in graphic cards is 1180MHz, available for example on X850 XT PE cards. We know that these cards are using DDR 3 600 memory capable of working at up to 1200MHz so ATI is almost pushing the limits here.
Samsung even sampled DDR 3, 800MHz memory working at 1.2 ns to its customers but we doubt that ATI or Nvidia will use this. It will be rare and very expensive but will drive your card up to 1600MHz and some huge amounts of bandwidth.
This memory will be handy to power all the bandwidth greedy pipelines and make the solution as fast as it should be. You need a lot of bandwidth for 24 or even 32 pipelines, so therefore you need to use very fast memory such is this.
We are still unable to give you exact frequency numbers of memory that ATI or Nvidia plans to use but these are details that will be finalised just days before the companies' launch of its next generation latest and greatest cards.
In Nvidia's case you cannot even use two 6600GT or 6800 GT cards from two companies since there may be incompatibilities. It is a problem even if you use different BIOSes on the cards. Two different cards simply won't work in this case.
ATI will let you use two different cards as its Multi VPU works in a different way. It tiles your screen like a chess board and each board can take care of different "chess fields". You will literally be able to take an R520 and plug it side by side with R423, X800 or R480, X850 board and make them render simultaneously. Faster boards could, for example, take on more tasks than slower board, rending more fields. Sounds good to me, but let's just see the drivers and performance of that Multi VPU marchitecture first. We heard a while ago that ATI has this marchitecture ready but it wants to wait with it and than surprise everyone. It will possibly materialise this marchitecture after the R520 "Fudo" launch.
Source: TheInquirer
Further The site adds.......
Which memory type will be used for R520 "Fudo" and G70?
SINCE we are getting closer and closer to the release of the R520 chip codenamed "Fudo", it is time to start wondering what kind of memory this chip might use. It's very easy to get the picture and you can just surf the web and actually see what kind of memory is available now.
What you can get at this moment is Samsung DDR 3, 1.4 ns memory, capable of working at an amazing 1400MHz. At this time the fastest memory clock used in graphic cards is 1180MHz, available for example on X850 XT PE cards. We know that these cards are using DDR 3 600 memory capable of working at up to 1200MHz so ATI is almost pushing the limits here.
Samsung even sampled DDR 3, 800MHz memory working at 1.2 ns to its customers but we doubt that ATI or Nvidia will use this. It will be rare and very expensive but will drive your card up to 1600MHz and some huge amounts of bandwidth.
This memory will be handy to power all the bandwidth greedy pipelines and make the solution as fast as it should be. You need a lot of bandwidth for 24 or even 32 pipelines, so therefore you need to use very fast memory such is this.
We are still unable to give you exact frequency numbers of memory that ATI or Nvidia plans to use but these are details that will be finalised just days before the companies' launch of its next generation latest and greatest cards.
